Fabio Porcu Portfolio of Works
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Curriculum Vitae
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Museum of the naval warfare
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Sant’Antioco lagoon crossing
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Cagliari University Campus
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Master Dissertation Building Engenireenin and Architecture
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Master Dissertation Landscape and Urbanism
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Fabio Porcu Languages
Italian: mother tongue Sardinian: mother tongue English: fluent French: elementary German: elementary
Education 2015
Master of Landscape and Urbanism (MA) Kingston University, UK (Classification with Distinction)
2014
Professional Engineering Qualification Universitá degli Studi di Cagliari
2013
Master of Science in Building Engineering and Architecture (MSc) Universitá degli studi di Cagliari (Grade 103/100)
2010
Master of science in Civil Engineering (MSc) Technische Universität Berlin (Erasmus exchange program)
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About me
I am an enthusiast of architecture since I was a child, I grew up trying to understand and represent spaces. I have been always fascinated by shapes, colours and materials, but furthermore what really pushed me to start my course of studies in Architecture is the tight relationship between the urban context and the social development, without ever forgetting the aesthetic component of this subject. I am a firm passionate of the modern movement and the rational approach to the spaces definition. I am a polyhedral person, often influenced by elements around me and glad to change my point of view when experiences show me a new possible perspective, but always having the same strong base of values. I like to define myself as a curious person, and this curiosity and the desire to explore new opportunities give me a character always in evolution. I have been involved in musical, artistic and social projects; I like be a part in several parallel activities bringing concept and experiences together. The eclecticism is the feature that more represents me, but at the same time I know how to be focused on a project and work hard to achieve the final result, in a team as well as working on my own.
Contacts
fporcu.85@gmail.com 07448244902 it.linkedin.com/in/fabioporcu
Projects
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MUguMA Museum of the naval warfare Teacher: Prof. Arch. Enrico Corti Assistant: Prof. Arch. Giovanni Marco Chiri Desiging team: Fabio Porcu, Paolo Zulli University of Cagliari Master in Building Engineering and Architecture Year 4th, Architectural Composition part 3
The Museum is designed for the small island of La Maddalena in front of the northern coast of Sardinia, the design is contextualized within the requalification of the part of the city occupied by the American army until 2008 when it moved officially out. The proposal of the project is to create a close relationship with the land and contemporary with the sea in different ways. The building is designed to be a prosecution of the ground: the cover of the museum is at the same time roof for the building and floor for the square in front of it, with a soft gradient land and museum are linked together. The relationship with the water is totally different: the museum is seen as steps in a theatre where the sea is the stage and on which the big hall is faced thanks to big glazed openings. The concept of the design is to include the sea, ideally, in the exhibition inside the museum, considering the water as a part of the show offered to the visitors. The relationship with the urban fabric of La Maddalena is guaranteed by the grid calculated from it and used to design the external spatial configuration of the square and the surrounding park. The internal spaces are designed to allow the people to move free in the museum, and at the same time to keep a connection between public spaces and spaces for workers only. This project has been developed for the workshop of Architectural Composition part 3, the scopes of the workshop was to face the designing of big public buildings and their relationship with the surrounded context. 9
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Sant’antioco lagoon crossing Teacher: Prof. Arch. Antonio Tramontin Assistant: Luca Garbadino, Nicola Cotza Desiging team: Fabio Porcu, Paolo Zulli, Simone Toscano, Davide Bonu University of Cagliari Master in Building Engineering and Architecture Year 5th, Architecture of large structures
The bridge designed for the Sant’Antioco (small island in front of the south west coast of Sardinia) lagoon is conceive ad a crossing for cars and pedestrian totally contextualized in the landscape; its shape and its position has been thought to be at the same time an attraction and a fastest way to reach the island. The shape of the bridge is calculated from the stream of the water entering and going out in the lagoon, the flows, interpreted as vectors, act on the line representing the connection in between the two sides of the lagoon. Pedestrian circulation and car circulation are separated in two different routes, this decision has been taken for a safety reason and to give to people crossing the bridge the opportunity to experience different feelings. The car route goes straight from a bank to the other one, the cover of the bridge is made by aluminium strips, placing side by side this strips the desired effect is to recall the velocity of crossing. Instead, the pedestrian path goes from a bank to the opposite one with a curved shape and stopping in the island in the middle of the lagoon; the shape of the bridge, obtained through using the vectors, wants to evoke a slow walk on the water giving to the people the opportunity to stand on the walk watching the surrounded landscape. Following this concept the cover of the pedestrian bridge is irregular and designed to allow visitors to have particular points of view on the water and the land. Designing this bridge has been an exercise made to face the problems deriving by the installation of a large infrastructure in a naturalistic context. The aims in the design process have been followed from the concept to the final result inserting a big construction minimizing its impact on the landscape. 19
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University Campus in Cagliari Responsible for the project: Prof. Eng. Antonello Sanna Arch. Giovanni Marco Chiri Collaborators: Eng. Alessandra Curreli (designing) Eng. Ilaria Giovagnorio (designing) Eng. Francesco Sedda (structures) Eng. Emanuele Mura (regulatory control) Eng. Fabio Porcu (cad and 3d modelling) Eng. Paolo Zulli (cad and 3d modelling)
The Project is the proposal for a new University Campus in Cagliari in Sardinia. Developed within the architectural department of the University of Cagliari the scope of the design is the construction, in different phases, of a dormitory for around 500 students and the related services. The campus will be situated in an old industrial area of the city, in the site where, since the beginning of the twentieth century, was installed the biggest grain milling industry within the region. This design is the third proposal for the campus, the first one required from the Cagliari city council directly to the department of architecture of the University of Cagliari. Being situated on an industrial site, the project takes into account the industrial heritage of the milling factory and it reproduce a stylistic connection with the industrial rationalism typical of the first half of the twentieth century characterizing the buildings that made up the industrial complex recently demolished. This relationship is characterized by the absence of ornaments and by utilizing typical material of the modern movement such as reinforced concrete and glass. In addition the project takes into account the guideline given by the municipality about the volume reserved to all the different services and the spatial configuration based on a modular system. My role in this designing team has been the assistant and collaborator at the designing, the drawings, 3d modelling and rendering. 29
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Architectural recovery of the ex grain milling factory in Cagliari Master dissertation
Mentor: Prof. Prof. Arch. Giovanni Marco Chiri Student: Fabio Porcu University of Cagliari Master in Building Engineering and Architecture Final Dissertation
The Project is the dissertation of the Master in building engineering and architecture achieved in the University of Studies of Cagliari. It is the continuation of the project for the university campus. The designing is focused on the recovery of the oldest building in reinforced concrete in the city of Cagliari. The building contains 10 silos used, until 1994, as storage space for the grain utilized in the adjacent grain milling factory. This silos is one of the only two buildings of the industrial complex that have not been demolished. The main feature of this site is its productive character and its structure that testifies the industrial architectural heritage of the city, in a district that for many decades has been the manufacturing core of the town and of the all region. Beginning from this starting point and from a deep study of the industrial and rational architecture, typical of the period when the complex was built, the project aims to protect this Landmarks and at the same time points to convert it from its original function to a new function including services useful for the next university campus and in general for the city, such as historic archive, library and study spaces. The stylistic choices respect the architectural character of the ex factory: the new building, added to provide the necessary spaces for the new functions, is deigned respecting the original project. Shapes and materials recall the modern movement of the twentieth century avoiding ornaments and through the using of reinforced concrete and big openings with glass. The project aims to create a close relationship with the surrounded context. 37
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Le Havre in words: conceptual representation of the fragmentation of the urban fabric
The Threshold for Le Havre
Master dissertation
Teacher: Assoc. Prof. Patricia Brown Kingston University MA Landscape and Urbanism Final Dissertation
The aim of this project is to take advantage from the features of the city and to transform the fragmentation of its urban fabric in a strong point to link together the activities along the waterfront, giving the opportunity to citizens and tourists to move free from a part to another one, passing through the different characters of the city and observing what is happening along their walk. The opportunity to do this experiment is given in the Quai de Southampton: this terrace is situated in front of the city centre, in front of the avant port and among a series of activities and functions typical of Le Havre. The site has been recently given back from the port authority to the city, currently it hosts some important activities such as the tower for the ship control and the port centre (ex ferry terminal) and, next to it, there is the museum of modern arts AndrĂŠe Marlaux besides others small business activities. Re-qualifying this area it will be possible connect the part of the city where working activities are running (the port area) and the opposite parts where leisure activities are located, connecting these with the residential areas inside the city. The project area is seeing as an hub, a space with the function of connection to offer new opportunities to the city linking it to the waterfront. This is the Master Project done for the MA Landscape and Urbanism, my aim during this project has been that one to combine the knowledge about architecture and urbanism exploring the new opportunities given by the subject of Landscape Architecture, and keeping the study about industrial areas. 47
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